...or maybe made a documentary about it 20 years ago....

When I started playing around with Linux 25 years ago Debian and APT was a small revolution in how good it worked out of the box.

I tried to get into Red hat and SUSE and I always wanted up in trouble even before I got any Windows manager up and running. Don't get me started on RPM and dependency hell

Debian just worked. I had stuff up n running BEFORE I had to go down the rabbit hole to understand how all things was connected.

For a beginner that was a game changer.

Yeah... Russians are known for their ability to reverse engineer and circumvent protections of all sorts... For good and bad...

I'm pretty sure it won't take long before there are easy ways to circumvent whatever VPN blocking Putin invests in...

Unfortunately this is coming and a majority of people are going to happily step on to the train.

Think of it like this: 99% of all apps could have been just web apps in a mobile browser (Hell, a majority essentially are just a wrapped web app) but because of companies offering more/better functionality people choose to use the app.

All that needs to happen is sites starting require DRM functionality for "security reasons" so that the end user can enjoy more features.

A majority of end users don't understand the implications when making choices like these.

Ads?

"Hi, I'm calling about your recent interest in furry related content. We at Furry Fetish inc recently mailed you a catalogue of our products... Oh...you haven't recieved it yet? Well, no worries. It was sent to 324 North Street..oh... You live on 325 North Street? No worries, your name is printed in large so whoever received it knows that is was for you and will probably deliver it to you..."

It seems he used this url: https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=mozilla.com

The tool just analyzes the Mozilla webpage and have nothing to do with Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Slovakia will ending their support for Ukraine isn't a problem as to what will happen when the US and EU stops supporting Slovakia.

The amount of money the US and EU has poured into Slovakia the last ten twenty years is far from insignificant.

If Slovakia decides to stop believing in Europe then Europe will stop believing in Slovakia.

So it's time for our EU politicians to step up then....

Hey, US, where are you in this? We need you guys to get on board with the right to privacy...

Jag är en av de som i princip helt släppte användandet av kontanter för 15-20 år sedan.

Då var det problematiskt att inte ha kontanter så man ofta fick betala en extra avgift för småköp med kort. Vinsten åts helt upp av kortavgifterna vid köp för små belopp. Tror kostnaden var något i stil med 3kr + 3% av totala beloppet. Köper man då tuggummi för 10kr så är det inte svårt att förstå att affärsidkaren vägrade kortbetalning.

Det som däremot inte syntes i kalkylen var den egentliga kostnaden för kontanthanteringen. Mängden värdetransportrån under 90- och 00-talen var ju förbluffande. Ibland var det 6-7 på en vecka. Lägg till det riskerna för alla de butiksanställda som fick gå med dagskassan till banken efter stängning.

Det var inte helt billigt med kontanter, inte bara sett ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv men också om man räknar mängden brottsoffer med livslånga men.

Nu har vi tagit oss till punkten där många affärsidkare istället vägrar kontanter. Butikerna slipper helt enkelt rånare som hotar och stjäl.

Även om fördelen är uppenbar så är det inte riskfritt med kontantkort samhälle.

Coops underleverantör som blev cryptovirusdrabbade drog med sig hela Coop i fallet. I princip var samtliga butiker i hela Sverige helt utslagn. Vi snackar miljardnota och det är bara för något som rörde en isolerad infrastruktur med relativt få inblandade.

Vad händer om en hel bank förlorar möjligheten att kommunicera utanför sin egna infrastruktur?

Vad händer om Bankgirocentralen går ner (= betala räkningar och SWISH)?

Det är inte officiellt men lita på att det har varit mycket problem för bankerna sen Ryssland började våldföra sig på Ukraina. Alltså i en situation där Sverige inte är direkt i krig utan bara ger stöd åt en kombattant.

Lägg till detta att du och jag på något konstigt sätt inte tycker det är det minsta konstigt att när du köper något i min affär så kommer någon in från vänsterflanken och tar 3% av beloppet.

När bankerna hade stora valv med dina och mina pengar så var det ju självklart att de skulle ha ersättning för att de garanterade att våra pengar inte bara försvann. Idag är finns och mina pengar i princip siffror i ett Excel-ark.... och de tar betalt varje gång du vill ändra en av siffrorna i arket. Det är i princip samma avgifter idag som för 20 år sedan när bankerna faktiskt hade omkostnader för kontanthantering vilket visar varför privata aktörer inte ska tillåtas befinna sig i situationen som svenska banker befinner sig i idag.

Det är dags att vi diskuterar möjligheten att Riksbanken tar över den finansiella infrastrukturen och ger oss medborgare bastjänsterna betalkort, transkriberingen, sparkonto och internetbank.

one thing that I've noticed the last week when using Lemmy is that content is slowly coming along but the discussions are somewhat lacking.

Reddit offers a shitload of topics and content but the real reason we were there was for the comments and the discussions.

Bots reposting material can be a way to artificially secure the constant flow of topics but we need to throw some gasoline on the discussion bonfire....

Windows does that automatically when switching from Linux to Windows... 😁

Old timer here.

In the old days Microsoft essentially conquered the web by creating specialized features only available for their web browser.

This is the reason why we still suffer with IE compatibility mode in Edge. A lot of corporations still have systems that rely on clients being IE compatible.

Google essentially does the same with their services and Chrome.

Time for the closed subreddits to let the users have a vote on full reopen or a reopen with a touch of John Oliver.

After all, Reddit is just doing all this with the interest of the users in mind....

As I understand it it's the anti-cheat that is the problem. If this is the only problem there is essentially only two possible ways to get Fortnite running in Linux:

1. Get Epic to support Linux
2. Crack the anti-cheat.

Since a major part of anti-cheat systems is preventing people circumventing it I would say that the easiest path would be getting epic to support Linux. One valid argument would be to play Fortnite on Steamdeck .

I've been jumping around trying 4-5 clients since the Reddit Exodus and all of them had some really anything bug. Voyager is the one that in my opinion is the best one feature and stability wise. However, voyager if giving me one big headache in the form of going totally black if I swap over to fx read an email. I don't care if you're my Firefox needing things up. I'm not going to opt in even more in Google Surveillance just because Voyager is open source.

Sync for Reddit was my whole Reddit experience for the last 7-8 years. I think I tried a majority of the clients and Sync totally wiped the floor with the other clients in my opinion. Both in new features and stability.

I use Windows and several dists on a daily basis. I have an Android phone and I truly like the philosophy behind open source... With that said.... Competition is great. We'll see what Sync for Lemmy can bring to the table. If it is as good as sync for Reddit was the other clients have to shape up and it's us, the users, that will benefit.

This message was created with Sync for Lemmy.

Essentially it only moves the borders of the partitions and "repairs" the filesystem inside each affected partition.

If there is data in an area inside the partion you are manipulating gparted has to move the data to an area inside the partition that is unaffected or move it to the new parts of the partition. This can take a long time even if modern PCs easily move 100MB/s

Also, even if gparted is mature software and the devs probably have implemented a lot of security measures you should always backup your data before manipulating the partitions. Especially when you're playing around with filesystems that aren't native like NTFS or more complicated filesystems like ZFS. I know people often nag about this but trust me... Blow 2TB of your data and you really really regret not spending 10 minutes backing up the essentials.

I've been using gparted for as long as I can remember and only once or twice has it caused dats loss. Since I'm very old school (started playing with PCs when 386DX 16MHz was fairly hot and RLL disks were a thing) and nerdy I was able to use data rescue software that looked for filesystems over the whole disk and guessed where partition borders should be.

Avoid this type of anxiety by backing up all data or at least backing up the data you can't live without.

Also, if you have a spare disk, it's faster and much safer to partition the spare one and just clone each partition. Sometimes it's even faster to clone the disk this way and then clone it back.

What if Teslas own self driving software causes an accident/death?

I'm pretty sure it has been proved that the weapons supplied by the US dismisses the importance of Putin.

"The countries of Central and Latin America "threw cold water" on the EU's efforts to unite the continent to support Ukraine and call for colonial reparations in a counter-proposal to the draft declaration of the upcoming EU summit."

So on one hand they are not interested in standing up against the Russian attempt to colonize Ukraine but on the other hand they are very interested about colonial reparations?

So... are they pro colonization or anti colonization?

They didn't fuck over the app devs.

It was us, the users, they fucked over.